Oh, look, another reason to love Kiefer!

Are Kiefer Sutherland and Eva Longoria good tippers?
Posted by Dee Rober on 2.27.08

Sherway Gardens, Toronto

“Kiefer and Eva came in for dinner at my restaurant, Via Allegro. We all knew they were in town filming The Sentinel nearby. Eva was with her dog so they sat on the patio. They were so nice. Eva’s dog was also well behaved. She had the shrimp linguini and Kiefer had the fish (can’t remember exactly which kind.) They seemed to enjoy each other’s company. Their dinner bill was only like $45 and they gave me $100 and told me to keep it. Neither ran me ragged with special needs or anything. Just refills on water and ice tea. Kiefer did not drink. Everybody asks that.

After dinner Eva was outside playing with her dog and Kiefer was smoking so my friends and I went up and asked for a photo. Eva asked if her dog could be in it too, Kiefer insisted that he stands on the curb so I wouldn’t be taller than him. Then they both looked at the pic and asked me to take onother one. How cool is that!? Good times.

Dammit!

The Fox TV network has confirmed there will be no return of 24 until January 2009.

Don't those people know I NEED this show to get me through the rough winter, the bad colds and the endless shovelling?

Bastards. They better give me a Bauer shower scene AND a shirtless Tony.

A drinking tip from Kiefer

"The key to drinking rye without gagging is to position the tumbler as far
back into your mouth as possible and gulp, quickly. This will ensure the fiery liquor bypasses your taste buds and is immediately thrust down your gullet, like the method used to fatten geese for foie gras. That was Kiefer Sutherland's advice, anyway.

On an October night 10 years ago, I found myself in Chinatown
drinking liquor and eating soup with the actor way past the legal hour."

Read the whole article, by Iris Benaroia, on the National Post

The Sutherland Chronicles

By Bob Thompson, National Post

Published: Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Read the whole article here.

I decided to add the photo because Mr. Sutherland rocks!

Surviving is what Donald Sutherland does best. He's still around after more than 40 years in the film and TV business, while many of his peers have either passed on or have been passed by. Not Sutherland.

At 72, he's busier than ever, and loving the activity in his own peculiar yet affable way, splitting time between his Quebec country estate and his Los Angeles mini-mansion.

Listen closely, and you can catch his dulcet voice in many high-profile TV commercials. Besides that, he recently earned a Golden Globe nomination for his acclaimed supporting role in the TV series Dirty Sexy Money. And he has a high-profile co-starring part in the romantic comedy Fool's Gold, which opens on Friday and features Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson.

[...]"It's interesting playing rich people in Fool's Gold and Dirty Sexy Money," says Sutherland. "They don't have to think about what things cost.

"Me, I think about what everything costs."

He also treats both of those acting performances seriously. Even the fanciful dude in Fool's Gold.

"I just thought Nigel was funny," he says of his billionaire character in the movie. "I loved the fantasy and the frailty of him. I loved the hopefulness of his relationship resolution with his daughter."

It is so unlike his closeness with son Kiefer. Divorced from Kiefer's mother Shirley Douglas in 1970, Donald reconciled with his son long ago.

In fact, father reports that he had dinner recently with his son, shortly after Kiefer was released from an L.A. jail where he had served 48 days on a drunken driving charge. "He's a brilliant man and I love him to death," says Sutherland of his son.

And yes, his son is looking forward to getting back to work. And, did conversation about dad appearing on his son's hit series 24 ever come up?

"He had already asked me to play his dad on the show," says Sutherland.

"It seems kind of logical, doesn't it? But I couldn't do it, because I was doing something else at the time."

He thinks about that for a second, then adds, "and besides, I was reluctant to play a father who wanted to kill his son."

Meanwhile, there is Dirty Sexy Money. The scripts were already written before the Writers Guild strike, so cast and crew are currently shooting episodes 12 and 13.

Otherwise, he's waiting to see what the future holds. And whatever that happens will be fine with him.

"Well, I'm alive, and I'm 72, and there are only so many 72-year-olds around working," he says, offering that trademark Sutherland grin. "And so far it looks like some people still like working with me."

I demand Rocco Deluca! Do it too!

Movies Online has a nice papa Sutherland interview

"Offspring are strange and complicated beings. I've been incredibly fortunate. If there is a wealth that I've had in my life really, truly it's my five children. I had dinner with Kiefer [Sutherland] last night. I had an end of the night meeting with my son Roeg [Sutherland]. They're just wonderful."

Q: How is Kiefer doing?
"Fantastic. Fantastic. Could not be more proud of a son and a man and an actor than I am of him. God, he blew me away last night."

Q: How so, his spirit after what he's been through?
"I don't think that you could call it his spirit, but certainly his sensibility is so balanced and measured and deliberate and the use that he made of his time – forty-eight days is a long time in solitary confinement, twenty-three hours a day. The only thing that he could do to get out was to do the laundry of the other inmates. He said to me last night, because I was able to put a deposit on the telephone so that he could call me collect kind of like every third day and then we'd have fourteen minutes, no more because they cut you off, to speak. You've never seen fourteen minutes go so quickly in your life, but he was saying that it was so cold in there, just freezing. Then last night he came up, and I had just landed yesterday afternoon, and he was released on Monday, and he said, 'You know what, I said that it was so cold in there, but it's freezing outside!' [laughs] "

Q: Where did you have dinner, a special local spot?
"Nah, it's just a restaurant up the street that we go to a couple of times. It's a good restaurant. I couldn't believe how much he ate. He was wonderful."

Go check it out at: http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_14000.html